Organized by who it's for. Where a resource already exists elsewhere on VC Radar, we link to it rather than duplicating it.
Score your own readiness before starting outreach.
How to structure your own pipeline spreadsheet.
What to have ready before diligence starts.
The 8 sections investors actually look for.
Preparation steps for first and partner meetings.
What a good monthly/quarterly update includes.
What to understand before signing anything.
What to organize before diligence starts.
Build or study a 14-section investment memo.
Problem → market → why now → view.
Team, market, product, traction, competition.
Inbound vs. outbound sourcing approaches.
Financial, commercial, legal, and team diligence.
Reserves, ownership targets, follow-on strategy.
What funds actually screen for at each level.
Building sourcing habits before you're hired.
Case questions, portfolio awareness, your own thesis.
7 hypothetical cases — would you invest?
Build your own, then study a worked example.
See "VC Career Paths" in VC University.
Well-known, independently published books on venture capital and startups. VC Radar is not affiliated with these authors or publishers — listed here as genuinely useful further reading, not paid placements.
Peter Thiel with Blake Masters — on building genuinely new things, not incremental competition.
Brad Feld & Jason Mendelson — a detailed, practical guide to term sheets and VC deal mechanics.
Scott Kupor (a16z) — how VC firms actually operate, from a long-time practitioner.
Eric Ries — build-measure-learn and the discipline of validated learning.
Sebastian Mallaby — a journalistic history of the venture capital industry.
Ben Horowitz — on the difficult, unglamorous realities of running a company.